Classic but rare baby boy names

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TheFutureIs · 29/08/2025 09:15

I’m a teacher, so when naming a baby I want something unusual but not weird.
I loved Alastair but unfortunately my partner has a cousin named this
Girl names are so much easier!
Any suggestions of similar names?

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Favouritefruits · 29/08/2025 09:32

Charles
Stephen
Euan
Bryn
Paul
David
Adonis
Micheal
Richard

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TheFutureIs · 29/08/2025 09:32

My current list

Xander
Newton
Emerson
Lando
Monty
Roscoe
Hamish
Murdoch
Indigo
Laurie

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Dmsandfloatydress · 29/08/2025 09:31

Clarence
Eustace
Edgar
Montgomery
Humphrey
Horace
Batholomew
St John
Boris
Seraphim
Isiah
Valentine
Algernon
Cyril
Fergus
Conrad

EverardDeTroyes · 29/08/2025 09:26

Richard
Robert
Peter
Mark
John

MinnieCauldwell · 29/08/2025 09:25

Miles
Nile
Guy
Otis
Cameron
Ross

Fifthtimelucky · 29/08/2025 09:24

Lots of names I think of as classic, and which were very common when I was a child in the 1960s, are rare these days:

Richard
Andrew
Peter
Paul
David
Simon
Stephen
John

Comedycook · 29/08/2025 09:24

John
Phillip
Douglas
Richard

Apricotily · 29/08/2025 09:22

Ivor
Philip
Peregrine
Clive
Martin
Neil
Ivan
Orson
Craig
Quentin

butterdish93 · 29/08/2025 09:22

Patrick
jonathan
Nicholas
alexander
micheal
nathan
Samuel

dagoo · 29/08/2025 09:17

Nicholas. Lovely name, but I've never met a child one.

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